Conscious Spirituality
Toward embracing our primal innocence, natural wholeness, and inner world by waking up from the divisive and self-destructive forces of Egoic Mind.
Opening Hearts and Unifying Minds
Dearest Friends,
As we move through this era of seemingly self-divisive forces of the egoic mind, which innocently uses countless means to sustain the illusion of separation, many of us are beginning to question whether some religious beliefs and practices have drifted from their original purpose of helping humanity experience greater love, unity, and connection with the Divine. Beliefs rooted in unworthiness, conflict, separation, and fear can easily be mistaken for spirituality itself.
Yet religion and what I call Conscious Spirituality are not necessarily the same. Offered below is the film Samadhi, which I feel beautifully portrays aspects of humanity’s present state of consciousness. Although expressed largely through Eastern spiritual perspectives, the film points toward a dimension of consciousness that transcends any particular religion, belief system, or tradition, a dimension I call nonreligious Conscious Spirituality.
Discerning Religion and Conscious Spirituality
Let us consider the difference between religion and Conscious Spirituality like this: Religion can be centered primarily upon concepts, beliefs, doctrines, traditions, and identities that remain within the Psychological Realm of human existence. These may offer meaning, guidance, community, and genuine spiritual support, yet believing something about our sacred nature is not necessarily the same as directly realizing it. When religious identity or belief becomes another mental construct through which we separate ourselves from others, it can actually obscure the very unity toward which spiritual teachings may be pointing.
Conscious Spirituality, as I use the term, invites us beyond self-imprisoning qualities and limitations of the mind by becoming increasingly intimate with our direct experience. In that intimacy, we may awaken to the realization that no being is truly separate from the Source and essence of existence. Using religious language, we might say that everyone is an expression of God, uniquely manifesting through the veils of identity, belief, and the illusion of separation. Conscious Spirituality therefore invites us not merely to be told what to believe about who we are, but to directly discover and realize the truth of ourselves.
“Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness.”
– Adyashanti
As Universal Love, as you,
Peace President
Videos about Discerning Religion and Conscious Spirituality.
Movie: Samadhi - Part One "Maya, the Illusion of self"
This movie is one of the best films ever made in our contemporary existence pointing towards the practical aspects leading to suffering, conflict, and violence in the world; all of which arising from the core illusion that every being is somehow a separate self, apart from the whole of existence. Blending amazing imagery and ancient and modern wisdom, this film offers the most amazing insights into understanding the ongoing self defeating nature of the human condition. You can find parts two through four at the YouTube channel of AwakenTheWorldFilm at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzsYSXn3zdCsLS063oCt8w
Samadhi Movie, 2017 - Part One - "Maya, the Illusion of Suffering"
Yogi Sadhguru speaks about the difference between Religion and Spirituality
Sadhguru, one of the most well known leaders of evolving a Conscious Planet speaks about the challenges and differences between religion and True Spirituality. You can visit his website at www.Isha.org or the Conscious Planet Movement at: consciousplanet.org
Difference between Religion and Spirituality
Eckhart Tolle on the Nature of Conscious Spirituality
Eckhart Tolle addresses the spiritual limitations arising from making a religion an ideology and a tool of mind to stay identified in egoic consciousness. Visit his YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj9fPezLH1HUh7mSo-tB1Mg
The Best of Healing with Byron Katie
Spirituality beyond Belief by Adyashanti
The deepest form of spirituality is something we engage in, not something we simply believe in. What is worth orienting a life around? If we never contemplate these kinds of questions, then our life tends to be dictated by outward experiences. Adyashanti invites you to look past your beliefs to within your own experience and discover what values are deeply meaningful to you. You can visit his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBj2I1l_ubQuWrdJV2Ns_Tg
Spirituality beyond Belief by Adyashanti
Mooji's view on Religion
Mooji speaks about the deepest truth of our existence – what we truly are universally speaking. He refers to the greatest and most direct and spontaneous reality as the “Self” as in Self Realization which can only be realized beyond trappings of mind, belief, and identity. He speaks of the unifying reality beyond the divisive nature of religion. You can visit his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpw2gh99XM6Mwsbksv0feEg
What we really are beyond religious beliefs
Is Religion Necessary? Q & A with Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle addresses the spiritual limitations arising from making a religion an ideology and a tool of mind to stay identified in egoic consciousness. Visit his YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj9fPezLH1HUh7mSo-tB1Mg
Is Religion Necessary by Eckhart Tolle
Rupert Spira: Trusting our Experience over our Beliefs
Religion has become trapped in the limitations of mind and belief when the original intention was to transcend the self imprisoning aspects of mind; which is to say: we are here to use the mind and not let the mind use us. Visit Rupert at: https://www.youtube.com/user/rupertspira